The gathered neighbors held their breath as the U.S. Army veteran raised his rifle and aimed at the flapping bald eagle. It’s against federal law to wound or kill an eagle. But this bird, hanging upside down, tangled in knots of fishing wire and baling twine, had already been given up for dead.
Enter Jason Galvin.
On his way to get minnows for a fishing trip on Friday, Galvin happened to look up. There, at the top of a towering 75-foot pine, was the young bird, struggling and clearly trapped.
Jason headed back to his cabin on East Rush Lake — about 5 miles west of Rush City — to tell his wife. Jackie Galvin made phone calls — to the sheriff’s office, city hall, the fire department, the University of Minnesota Raptor Center, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
They all told her the same thing: They knew about the eagle. It had been hanging there for at least 2½ days but no one had a tall enough ladder to save it. They thought it was dead. Any struggling the Galvins thought they saw was likely just the wind.
So Jackie turned to her Army veteran husband. Jokingly, he said he could probably shoot it down. Her eyes lit up.
The gathered neighbors held their breath as the U.S. Army veteran raised his rifle and aimed at the flapping bald eagle. It’s against federal law to wound or kill an eagle. But this bird, hanging upside down, tangled in knots of fishing wire and baling twine, had already been given up for dead.
Enter Jason Galvin.
On his way to get minnows for a fishing trip on Friday, Galvin happened to look up. There, at the top of a towering 75-foot pine, was the young bird, struggling and clearly trapped.
Jason headed back to his cabin on East Rush Lake — about 5 miles west of Rush City — to tell his wife. Jackie Galvin made phone calls — to the sheriff’s office, city hall, the fire department, the University of Minnesota Raptor Center, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
They all told her the same thing: They knew about the eagle. It had been hanging there for at least 2½ days but no one had a tall enough ladder to save it. They thought it was dead. Any struggling the Galvins thought they saw was likely just the wind.
So Jackie turned to her Army veteran husband. Jokingly, he said he could probably shoot it down. Her eyes lit up.
Luv it when a good plan comes together.
Now, if he'd been a Marine, it would've only taken one shot
Yeah, but a shotgun wouldn't have been the thing to use, 1st.
Gotta love this guy. Well done.
Yeah, but a shotgun wouldn't have been the thing to use, 1st.
Lol!
Wrong tool for the right job.